RTE Gold discussion thread

thesandeman

amlinopta wrote: »

Final shared broadcast with RTE1 is Will Leahy’s this evening. Presumably extra sports coverage when the GAA championships start

They may have jumped the gun there a bit.

RINO87

ford fiesta wrote: »

Is there a need to axe GOLD from 5pm to 7pm on Saturday and 6pm to 8pm on Sunday?
Does sport usually go on after 5 and 6pm anyway?

I normally during the Winter (pre Covid) hear stuff like Documentaries, Saturday Sounds with Neil "Mamma Mia" Doherty, or Mooney goes Wild???

SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH..... Don't remind anyone that Saturday Sounds ever existed in case they go getting any ideas!

ford fiesta

Rick is on now 6pm to 8pm for the final time of Saturday's RTE Gold/Radio 1

Mickey Mike

ford fiesta wrote: »

Rick is on now 6pm to 8pm for the final time of Saturday's RTE Gold/Radio 1

You'd imagine with level 3 and no sporting events taking place that Gold will continue on Radio 1 for another bit.

odyssey06

Mickey Mike wrote: »

You'd imagine with level 3 and no sporting events taking place that Gold will continue on Radio 1 for another bit.

Elite sport (including inter county, LOI) can still take place in Level 3 I think.

Pelvis Parsley

Best thing they have had on R1 on a weekend afternoon for years, and they've done away with it.

We have one radio and one TV channel as Gaeilge-the need or demand for an afternoon programme on the flagship station as well must be negligible.

But hey, it's RTE, they haven't made a habit of too many good calls.

Rick signing off now, so it's back to robojock.

Good job Rick over the last few months. He finished with this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFhTsunuXpY

Infoanon

Pelvis Parsley wrote: »

Best thing they have had on R1 on a weekend afternoon for years, and they've done away with it.

We have one radio and one TV channel as Gaeilge-the need or demand for an afternoon programme on the flagship station as well must be negligible.

But hey, it's RTE, they haven't made a habit of too many good calls.
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In fairness that's not RTEs call and there would be uproar from certain quarters if RTE Radio One dropped this or any Irish language programming.

Additionally the mess that is DAB cannot be laid at RTEs door.

Pelvis Parsley

Infoanon wrote: »

In fairness that's not RTEs call and there would be uproar from certain quarters if RTE Radio One dropped this or any Irish language programming.

Additionally the mess that is DAB cannot be laid at RTEs door.

But they aren't dropping Irish language programming, they're putting a whole new show on after the sport slot, no?

DAB is one thing, but they could [edit] simulcast quality/popular programming on either channel from time to time-just as a thought, the Ronan slot during the week would fit nicely into Gold, as did the afternoon weekend slot on R1 in turn, the other way around.

I just think they're saving very little by consigning it to the scrapheap. I know it's now one of my favourites on TuneIn, and it wouldn't have been on my radar at all, but for the lockdown. Forget about DAB, there's surely some demand for it via online platforms.

Infoanon

Pelvis Parsley wrote: »

But they aren't dropping Irish language programming, they're putting a whole new show on after the sport slot, no?
. Forget about DAB, there's surely some demand for it via online platforms.

Vested interests will ensure that such a move would be judged outside of RTES public broadcasting remit and ensure such 'waste of taxpayers ' money would be highlighted.

The same group would have RTE Radio One broadcast 24 hours a day in Irish if they could get their way.

Pelvis Parsley

Very true!

kazoo106

Is it just me - or has the mid mornig music playlist on RTE Gold gone to pot. It has been my lone accompaniment since March while working from home, but over the last week or so have been tuning into Heart 80s on DAB after 10am (lucky to get stuff from across the border) and find myself staying there for the rest of the day

Mickey Mike

Was it around this time last year when RTE made the mayor cut backs, well nothing have happened since, the top presenters still paid big salaries which is one of the reasons why some people are not paying the TV licence fee.
RTE Gold and other digital channels are hanging on there, even after a year we still don't know what the future holds.
As long as the government keeps funding them with your money, RTE will just keep it going.

Elmo

Mickey Mike wrote: »

Was it around this time last year when RTE made the mayor cut backs, well nothing have happened since, the top presenters still paid big salaries which is one of the reasons why some people are not paying the TV licence fee.
RTE Gold and other digital channels are hanging on there, even after a year we still don't know what the future holds.
As long as the government keeps funding them with your money, RTE will just keep it going.

RTÉ have not released figures for their top stars. From my understanding of the statement made by the Director of Channels, Audiences and Marketing at RTÉ in the Oireachtas this week, RTÉ are postponing any decision on services until the Commission on the Future of Media reports back in 9 months time, however he was only taking about the move of Lyric FM back to Dublin and Cork, he may not have been talking about DAB, only in very in direct way.

ford fiesta

Micky Mac is back on RTE Gold this New Years Eve

thejuggler

ford fiesta wrote: »

Micky Mac is back on RTE Gold this New Years Eve

Larging it up. Welcome Welcome Welcome! Didn’t he do some work on lyric after his stint on 2fm ended? Also remember him doing oldies on 2fm at one stage. He’s done it all in music radio. Wonder if his NYE slot will be live.

Declan A Walsh

thejuggler wrote: »

Larging it up. Welcome Welcome Welcome! Didn’t he do some work on lyric after his stint on 2fm ended? Also remember him doing oldies on 2fm at one stage. He’s done it all in music radio. Wonder if his NYE slot will be live.

That's right. Michael McNamara played oldies for many years on 2FM (or Radio 2 as it was called most of that time) on weekends. Come the early '90s, he reinvented himself on 2FM as a dance deejay called Mickey Mac on Saturday nights! Michael reinvented himself again by joining the fledging classical arts station Lyric FM in his native Limerick in 1999 - now playing classical music! I think he did some kind of classical countdown on Saturday afternoons at one point!

Michael left radio for a while to concentrate on his involvement with a college in Limerick before returning to the airwaves with commercial station Clare FM.

ford fiesta

Michael sure did the Lyric Countdown on Lyric FM Saturday lunchtimes until George Hamilton took over the Saturday and Sunday lunchtime slots in 2002.

His return to RTE after Lyric FM was RTE Gold in around 2014 when the weekend schedule was beginning to grow, first with a weekend Classic Dance Show and then a mainstream Saturday afternoon oldies show in 2017 until most of the weekend programmes (Al Dunne, Marian Farrell, Mike Moloney, Nails Mahoney, Eric Moore etc.) were cut in late 2019.
During this time Michael presented weekend and weekday shows with Clare FM and may have done a show or 2 with Limerick's Live 95.

His late mother ran the secretarial school which became HSI college in Limerick and Michael worked here while his long career with RTE continued.

I don't think he ever presented a weekday show on RTE radio, unless he covered for some weekday presenters in the 1980s??.

amlinopta

ford fiesta wrote: »

Michael sure did the Lyric Countdown on Lyric FM Saturday lunchtimes until George Hamilton took over the Saturday and Sunday lunchtime slots in 2002.

His return to RTE after Lyric FM was RTE Gold in around 2014 when the weekend schedule was beginning to grow, first with a weekend Classic Dance Show and then a mainstream Saturday afternoon oldies show in 2017 until most of the weekend programmes (Al Dunne, Marian Farrell, Mike Moloney, Nails Mahoney, Eric Moore etc.) were cut in late 2019.
During this time Michael presented weekend and weekday shows with Clare FM and may have done a show or 2 with Limerick's Live 95.

His late mother ran the secretarial school which became HSI college in Limerick and Michael worked here while his long career with RTE continued.

I don't think he ever presented a weekday show on RTE radio, unless he covered for some weekday presenters in the 1980s??.

Mickey Mac’s son is Conor, has made a good career out of sports commentary, mainly football, TV3, BBC five live and Virgin Media of late

channelsurfer2

amlinopta wrote: »

Mickey Mac’s son is Conor, has made a good career out of sports commentary, mainly football, TV3, BBC five live and Virgin Media of late

oh wow.. didnt realise that. you learn something new every day. conor certainly hasnt the same voice.

ford fiesta

channelsurfer2 wrote: »

oh wow.. didnt realise that. you learn something new every day. conor certainly hasnt the same voice.

well it's not far from his father's radio voice in fairness!

RINO87

ford fiesta wrote: »

well it's not far from his father's radio voice in fairness!

Yes! You DEFINATLEY can hear "Dance Era" Mickey Mac in Connor McNamara's commentary, very similar at times!

alzer100

Al Dunne, Eric Moore and John Daly returning to RTE Gold during the coming week. Are these one off shows?

Christmas Day
Eric Moore 14:00 - 16:00 Golden Years

St Stephens Day
Al Dunne 10:00 - 13:00 Al Dunne on Saturday**

Sunday 27th
John Daly 18:00 - 19:00 Gold Country

**To call Al Dunne's show by this name may suggest something permanent??

odyssey06

Bring back Dalys 80s!

CUCINA

Please, RTE Gold, can you give the likes of Phil Collins, Paul Young, and Billy Joel a rest? The station is still a good alternative to the other ad-drenched stations, but there seems to be a somewhat limited play list. You only you become aware of this when you listen to other "oldie" programmes, IMHO !

ford fiesta

Will Leahy said this morning there will be a new weekend schedule announced in the next week.

Mickey Mike

ford fiesta wrote: »

Will Leahy said this morning there will be a new weekend schedule announced in the next week.

It seems like RTE Gold is set to continue. What was all this closing the digital radio channels in November 2019, only upsetting us.

ford fiesta

Mickey Mike wrote: »

What was all this closing the digital radio channels in November 2019, only upsetting us.

Covid and it continuing much longer than expected

channelsurfer2

ford fiesta wrote: »

Covid and it continuing much longer than expected

I'm happy it's continuing. I do enjoy Rick o Shea in the mornings as an alternative to the drivel on the main 2fm and d&d on todayfm

Elmo

Mickey Mike wrote: »

It seems like RTE Gold is set to continue. What was all this closing the digital radio channels in November 2019, only upsetting us.

It's called putting it on hold following the 10m increase it recieve from the government in 2020, along with the move of the NSO to the NCH in 2021. Plus COVID.

RTÉ had no intention they played the politicians on Lyric FM.

ford fiesta

lots of listeners are using smart speakers.
Even if the RTE dab network closed, the station would cost very little to run.
apart from presenters who are already permenant